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Threw

//θɹuː// verb, slang

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Verb
  1. 1
    simple past of throw form-of, past
  2. 2
    past participle of throw colloquial, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past

    ""But I'd have threw lead at him if I'd been scared enough. I wasn't scared enough.""

Etymology

From Middle English threw, from Old English þrēaw (first and third person past tense of þrāwan), from West Germanic *þreu, from Northwest Germanic *þrerō, from Proto-Germanic *þeþrō (first and third person past tense of *þrēaną), reduplication of *þrēaną.

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